David Karas/The TimesTrenton Firefighters respond to a warehouse at the corner of Hamilton Ave. and Clark Street Sunday evening after 5 p.m. to knock down a small fire inside. Officials and neighbors say the fire was the latest in a string of incidents at the location

TRENTON — Fire crews put out a fire in an abandoned warehouse at the corner of Hamilton Avenue and Clark Street yesterday afternoon.

Trenton Fire Battalion Chief Steve Coltre said that the fire was likely started by kids playing the building.

Neighbors said that the site, which is due for construction work soon, has been a magnet for children and the homeless, some of whom use the building to cook food.

“You are going to have kids play around in the area,” Coltre said.

He said that firefighters were dispatched to the same warehouse the week prior, but that neither of the incidents were serious.

“It is abandoned, and there is not much in there,” he said. “If they start something it is usually a pile of papers.”